Google says it took legal action to take down dozens of domains and disrupt the residential proxy network of Chinese company Ipidea, widely used by bad actors
Company targets global network employed by hackers that often use devices running in homes of everyday Americans
Wall Street Journal Robert McMillan
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Google & partners disrupted IPIDEA, one of the world's largest residential proxy networks, reducing its device pool by millions. This infrastructure was leveraged by over 550 distinct espionage and cybercrime groups. Full report + IOCs here: https://cloud.google.com/... [image]
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@googlecloudsec
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Big win for online safety! 👏 Google and partners just took down IPIDEA, one of the world's biggest proxy networks, used by hundreds of bad actors to hide their activity. Read how Google Threat Intelligence Group led this effort: https://cloud.google.com/... [image]
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@denisewu
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Unlike Jensen Huang, quietly helping DeepSeek, an extension of China's military. Google knocked out IPIDEA proxy network (resident proxy), a Chinese company linked to massive cyber weapons that's a go-to service for criminals and state-sponsored hackers. [image]